Thu May 2 00:37:34 2002
Okay. Run stand/sysinstall, run XF86Setup. We know exactly what chipset it is, it's an S3 ProSavage PM133, the chip is an 8a25. It's got 8 megs SDRAM onboard. The Northbridge chipset is VT82C686B. We could not know more about this graphics chip. It's own mother does not know as much as we do.
So does XFree86 configure? Shyah, right!
It configures and HARD LOCKS! :rolleyes:
So, our Unix guru's bright idea is to grab the latest CVS of XFree and compile that.
OH FUCKING JOY.
It's been compiling for an HOUR now and shows no signs of stopping. I may never get home. I might as well sleep here. Fuck this shit. :mad:
Plus, the president just trashed my GUI for being "too plain". This is after it has gone through weeks of showing samples to the sales and marketing staff to get their feedback. No, it's too fucking plain. Well, what the hell do you want, dancing monkeys? It's a fucking GUI! *sigh*
Right now he is yakking our head programmer's ear off, asking dumb questions. Better him than me. Of course neither of THEM have WIVES to get home to...
Thu May 2 00:47:32 2002
Is FreeBSD the BSD you normally use at work? Just curious.
Thu May 2 00:53:51 2002
The BSD license is teh win.
Thu May 2 01:48:50 2002
Our lead programmer (also the Unix guy) wants to move to Darwin for technological reasons
Wouldn't that cause your hardware spending to go up exponentially?
;)
Thu May 2 05:46:10 2002
from Jeremy Reimer posted at 7:37 pm on May 1, 2002Beware of *nix gurus; they have no concept of time. This is largely because they don't actually have to do any work with their computers...
So, our Unix guru's bright idea is to grab the latest CVS of XFree and compile that
Thu May 2 11:46:21 2002
Sorry Jeremy, but I can't help laughing.
Besides, think about all the cool shit you're learning. You're becoming very *Nix l33t.
;)
M.
Thu May 2 12:39:59 2002
from Harbinger posted at 6:48 pm on May 1, 2002Our lead programmer (also the Unix guy) wants to move to Darwin for technological reasonsWouldn't that cause your hardware spending to go up exponentially?
;)
Wut? Unless someone decides to run Darwin on Macs, there's no reason why it should cost anything. I'd probably run Darwin on a cheap x86 box.
(Edited by fux0ringm0r0n at 5:43 am on May 2, 2002)
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Thu May 2 16:06:06 2002
from Stainless posted at 8:57 am on May 2, 2002
I thought that was only Linux ?
Thu May 2 18:17:40 2002
It's working now, but we stayed until 8:00 and it still hadn't compiled KDevelop, so our lead programmer, the guy who kept me at work until 8:00 in the first place, decided he would just bring his dev station in from home and use that for the demo.
AUUGH! THERE WAS NO NEED TO STAY AT ALL!!!! :mad:
So right now we're waiting for these bigshot investor guys, and we're all in nicely ironed shirts and the stupid little S3 Savage Shit3D box is STILL installing Kdevelop...
And now I have to learn how to use CVS. FUCK! My brain isn't big enough for all these tagnuts!!!!
Thu May 2 18:22:39 2002
Our Unix guy, when he FINALLY got the X Server working, declared many, many times how much a pain in the ass it was.
You should get some direct quotes from him, just in case you need some ammo/fodder for the BF. ;)
I'd like to say "I feel your pain" but right now I'm running CAT5 into the new server room. Be back in a bit!
Thu May 2 18:28:29 2002
You should get some direct quotes from him, just in case you need some ammo/fodder for the BF
Whenever I do that, treatment simply says that I am lying about his very existence. I ought to vidcap him running *nix and bitching about it, and then link to it.... nah, too much effort just to silence a juvenile fucktard...
Thu May 2 18:48:25 2002
Thu May 2 18:50:44 2002
Uhh, I've *never* had a Xfree -configure work correctly for me.. I just edit the config file by hand, it's not *that* hard.
I *apologize* for all the asterisks and "quotes" in my posts, I never realized how annoying it was until I *read* what I had written.
*Sincerly*
De~Athe
Thu May 2 18:51:25 2002
Thu May 2 19:53:05 2002
from DeAthe posted at 2:51 pm on May 2, 2002
BTW, I think I may be giddy w/ relief. Ignore me.
I'll get the chloroform.